At 09:50 -0400 20/6/05, Steve Goldstein wrote: >One more thing: by the time you pay for a SATA PCI card and cable, >you are likely to be shelling out almost enough cash to buy a new >80-120 GB IDE drive. As I recall, the PCI SATA cards cost about >$50--unless the price has come way down. Thanks for all the quick and informative replies. Since I do NOT need the SATA drive I then see no point in going to the unnecessary expense... Again, thanks for all the replies.